Description
Book SynopsisSuitable for those interested in art history, theories of gender, and postcolonial studies, this book contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced through cross-cultural interactions.
Trade Review“Focusing largely on the conjunction of Orientalism and pictorial representation, a still underexamined area,
Orientalism’s Interlocutors contributes new understanding to the concepts of Orientalism and colonial discourses.”—
Julie Codell, coeditor of
Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture“This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to what is becoming a truly major debate. It advances the latest thinking about the processes of cultural interaction between East and West by viewing such ‘interlocutions’ as being much more of a dialogue through which indigenous identities can be formed and asserted.”—
John MacKenzie, author of
Orientalism: History, Theory, and the ArtsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Orientalism's Interlocutors / Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts
Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse / Zeynep Celik
Colonial Tutelage to Nationalist Affirmation: Mammeri and Racim, Painters of the Maghred / Roger Benjamin
The Mosque and the Metropolis / Mark Crimson
Earth into the World, Land into Landscape: The “Worlding” of Algeria in Nineteenth-Century British Feminism / Deborah Cherry
Henri Regnault's Wartime Orientalism / Hollis Clayson
Contested Terrains: Women Orientalists and the Colonial Harem / Mary Roberts
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
